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Definition of Portals
1. portal [n] - See also: portal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portals
Literary usage of Portals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory of Structures by Charles Milton Spofford (1915)
"portals are frequently built, however, which are statically undetermined with
... For more complicated portals special methods may have to be devised, ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1908)
"Usually, such portals are given an arch whose radius has a length that will give
a fair curvature ... Several designs of portals are illustrated in Fig. 20. ..."
3. E-learning in Tertiary Education: Where Do We Stand? by OECD Staff, SourceOECD (Online service), SourceOECD (2005)
"portals (Question 2.7) A portal refers to a single gateway to a range of academic
and ... Many institutions in the OECD/CERI sample had functional portals, ..."
4. The Design of Highway Bridges of Steel, Timber and Concrete by Milo Smith Ketchum (1920)
"portals.—Portal bracing is placed at the ends of through bridges in the planes
of the end-posts ... Several different types of portals are shown in Fig. 5. ..."
5. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"The portals of Rouen cathedral and the rose windows of Amiens and Saint Ouen are
especially ... 132 is practically 136—West portals of cathedral of Tours. ..."
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